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[Chelsea Watson @chelsea_wats]

THREAD: As #Omicron surges and our systems strain, I wanted to share my #COVID19 experience in NYC last month. It was actually a hopeful window into what a society where we look out for one another and a government that is set up to truly care for us could look like.

[sushmita @sushmitameka]

He won't tweet this himself, so go Gabe @gabezt! Even more impressive (in my opinion) was his raising a tiny human during a global pandemic when childcare fell through and hyper-focusing to get shit done. Like this paper, nbd. 🦸🏽‍♂️

[AEA Journals @AEAjournals]

Forthcoming in the AER: "Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the D.R. Congo" by Pablo Balán, Augustin Bergeron, Gabriel Tourek, and Jonathan L. Weigel. https://t.co/Utll0BuyNs

[sushmita @sushmitameka]

Consider donating to support the resettlement of #Afghan women journalists, human rights defenders, musicians and heroes in their new host countries: https://t.co/Dg39HQgrhL

[Gabriel Tourek @gabezt]

Read about our project studying how assignment of bureaucrats shapes performance in taxation at @vox_dev

[GU Women & Peace @giwps]

As Taliban enter Kabul, the U.S. Government needs to save our Afghan women allies, who are high on Taliban kill lists.
•Direct evacuation flights
•$1.125 billion appropriated
•Special parole program
•High-level Interagency Refugee Coordinator
https://t.co/KLNCjpJXMt

[sushmita @sushmitameka]

@LizReidPGH We lived with my parents for a year, because we never got off waitlists in Boston. Now we're playing the waitlist game in Pittsburgh while working full-time jobs. Most tell us our best hope is 2022. When people (mainly men) wonder why American women aren't having children...

[Liz Reid @LizReidPGH]

Back to normal? I put my twins on waitlists in 2017, they were born in 2018, and we didn't end up finding any available slots (partly bc we needed two at a time) until 2021. The lack of high-quality, affordable child care is an ongoing national crisis.

[Nina Brooks @ninarbrooks]

How can satellite imagery & machine learning be leveraged to help environmental regulators? Our new study in @PNASNews demonstrates a machine-learning approach for identifying brick kilns in Bangladesh. (1/n)

🔗: https://t.co/fwRPaXrGQj

[Ayanna Pressley @AyannaPressley]

Waive the vaccine patents. Now.

[sushmita @sushmitameka]

@POTUS @WHCOS Please take a few minutes to call/email your senators, rep, & tweet to ask Biden administration to release stockpiles of extra of AZ (and other) vaccines, and support patent waivers during the time of a GLOBAL PANDEMIC. Script by
@nihasingh06
here: https://t.co/ijufM3EzuJ

[sushmita @sushmitameka]

No-one is safe until everyone is safe, @POTUS @WHCOS. Waive patents and donate extra doses of the vaccines. #PeoplesVaccine #COVIDIndiaHelp

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

HUGELY UNDERCOUNTING DEATHS—India is either sloppy in miscounting #COVID19 deaths, or they are criminally covering up overwhelming deaths. All signs & reporting points either one or the other—“It’s a complete massacre of data”. Real deaths 2x-5x higher.🧵
https://t.co/jC31QwTBfA

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

India's health system is on the verge of collapse

America can help.

My piece in @washingtonpost on how the world’s oldest democracy (the U.S.) can help the world's largest democracy (India).

It's time to act.

https://t.co/vr6MboZgog

[HXD Conference @hxdconf]

"I want to encourage you to draw a circle around your most vulnerable populations and work with them to design the system that they need . . . be awed about what people are forced to carry instead of being judgemental that they carry it." @ckchamberlain_ #HXD2021

[Ben Wikler @benwikler]

There's a lot of totally correct talk about how @StaceyAbrams was pivotal to winning Georgia. Folks: Stacey & her team were pivotal to flipping Wisconsin too. And every other battleground. They worked with us to build massive, supercharged voter protection teams—starting *early.*

[sushmita @sushmitameka]

Thank you, https://t.co/LA7mbCAZAb 🙏🏾

[sushmita @sushmitameka]

Received this fitting gift in the mail last night. Georgia and late Rep. John Lewis, we owe you everything: "I have said this before, and I will say it again, the vote is precious. It is almost sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democracy."

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

So many deserve credit for 10yrs to new Georgia: @gwlauren @fairfightaction @nseufot @NewGAProject @AAAJ_Atlanta @GALEOorg @BlackVotersMtr Helen Butler @GeorgiaDemocrat @RebeccaDeHart DuBose Porter @DPGChair. Always John Lewis. Charge any omissions to my head. My heart is full.💙

[Marie Berry @marieeberry]

Dreaming of ethnographers replacing pollsters

[Lina Hidalgo @LinaHidalgoTX]

ATTENTION Election Day voters: For the first time in a presidential election, you don’t have to vote in your home precinct tomorrow. You can vote at any location in Harris County, including @BBVAStadium. With @HoustonDynamo player Niko Hansen reminding everyone to vote tomorrow!